Residents in NSW and the ACT are being urged to brace for 'catastrophic' fire conditions on Saturday as the temperature rises
Residents should instead go to the beach, a shopping centre or somewhere else safe.
The Green Wattle Creek Fire threatens a number of communities in the south west of Sydney on 19 December 2019.Geoffrey Keaton, 32, and Andrew O'Dwyer, 36, from the Horsley Park brigade were in a truck convoy near the town of Buxton when a tree fell causing their vehicle to roll off the road. Emergency warnings remain in place for a number of fires including those at Lameroo, one near Maitland on Yorke Peninsula and one at Virginia, north of Adelaide.
The state was being hit by a combination of extremely high temperatures and rising winds with the potential for thousands of lightning strikes in the afternoon.
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